Installing cPanel on a cloud server

As one of the most commonly installed control panels out there, there’s not a lot of platforms that can run cPanel on the cloud. Our cloud platform can run cPanel with no problems at all and you can follow the steps below in order to setup your cloud server today!

Create a CentOS 6 cloud server

You can do this by logging into your cloud control panel and creating a server using the “CentOS 6.3″ template. If you’re feeling fancy and you have the CLI tools setup in place, a unique security group for cPanel servers and a key pair for your machine, you can run the following using the nova utility, just shows you how powerful the OpenStack platform is!

Once it’s ready and active, you can start by logging into the server via SSH.

Prepare the server for cPanel installation

Our images are all preloaded with minimal operating systems in order to save space and be more efficient. The first step is to install the main requirements for cPanel that will be missing which are wget and perl.[>

# yum -y install wget perl

You will also have to make sure that you have a correct hostname setup for your server as when creating a cloud server, the hostname is setup to what the server name is. You can set your hostname by running the following:

# hostname server.hostname.com

Start the cPanel installation process

One of the nicest things about cPanel is how extremely easy it’s installation process, it takes care of everything and works extremely well, in order to start the installation process, you can run the following in SSH: